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Reise nach Kalino Knapp, Radek
Radek Knapp can. Whatever he undertakes in the way of writing succeeds, and so does the pseudo-detective novel Reise nach ...
Ich bin das Festland Çakır, Seher
Migration is the recurring theme in the collection of stories ich bin das festland (i am the mainland) by Seher Çakır, ...
Die Unzertrennlichen Faschinger, Lilian
A death takes Sissi Fux back to the Sausal region in the south of Styria. Back to her unloved relatives and the evil grandmother. Back to the father, who fell down a staircase and broke his ...
Reisen und Gespenster Stangl, Thomas
Thomas Stangl’s volume of essays Reisen und Gespenster (Journeys and Ghosts), which follows three novels – most recently Was Kommt (What Is Coming) – documents the attempt to examine the ...
Hanno brennt Köhle, Markus
When a person burns, then it is with love, passion or rage – all these blazing feelings are to be found in the new novel Hanno brennt (Hanno Is Burning) by Markus Köhle, published by Milena. ...
Ich nannte ihn Krawatte Flašar, Milena Michiko
The stranger’s real name is Ōhara Tetsu, but the young man on the park bench calls the elegant gentleman simply ‘The Tie’. Milena Michiko Flašar’s novel tells the story of an ...
Ruhm am Nachmittag Gauß, Karl-Markus
When eminent names are being named, mention will be made of the journals of Karl-Markus Gauss from Salzburg, who has now published his fourth such book, entitled Ruhm am Nachmittag (Fame in the ...
Die Seelensucherin Fioretos, Aris
Aris Fioretos' fascinating novel Stockholm Noir – a much more fitting title for this tale of strange encounters and wrong perceptions than the German Die Seelensucherin ( The Soul Seeker ) ...
Herznovelle Rabinowich, Julya
Heart operations are not infrequently traumatic experiences which leave deep psychological scars. In Julya Rabinowich’s Herznovelle (Heart Story) it is, though, a love trauma which the ...
Der Platz des Hundes Weidenholzer, Anna
Anna Weidenholzer’s eight stories are loosely connected by their characters; the author lets her characteristically laconic style play over the everyday lives of the characters, who have been ...
Stillbach oder Die Sehnsucht Gruber, Sabine
Clara is on the way to Rome, in order to sort out the personal effects of her friend Ines, who has died suddenly. They were both born in the (fictitious) village of Stillbach in South Tyrol, and ...
Engel des Vergessens Haderlap, Maja
Maja Haderlap, who won the Bachmann Prize in 2011, has returned to her Carinthian home – to be precise to her Slovene village of Lepena, with her first novel, Engel des Vergessens (Angel of ...
Jáchymov Haslinger, Josef
"Jáchymov" is a triangular story. The angles – in a well constructed network of tensions kept up to the very last page of the book – are formed by Bohumil Modrý, Blanka Modra and ...
Die Voest-Kinder Reichart, Elisabeth
Voest, Austria’s most important industrial company, developed from the Hermann Göring Steelworks. The history of this plant has long since been researched by historians, and there have also ...
Geld! Rosei, Peter
Peter Rosei has written – in a highly condensed form – a Viennese social novel which has only marginally to do with the finance industry, but which nevertheless focuses on money. This is ...
Die Tiere von Paris Schreiner, Margit
"You write on a board that you have taken from a building site, sitting up in bed, while your husband works at his desk." (p. 8) That is how Die Tiere von Paris (The Animals of ...
Sommer wie Winter Taschler, Judith W.
Judith W. Taschler’s ”Sommer wie Winter” (Like Summer like Winter) may be her first novel, but it is nevertheless a mature book as regards both style and narrative technique. The author ...
Kaltschweißattacken Falkner, Michaela
I would like to lie on the edge of the world... Love is the continuation of war by other means, writes Elfriede Jelinek. “There is always violence here. There is always fighting here. It is ...
Alle sieben Wellen Glattauer, Daniel
With readers having refused to accept the open ending of Gut gegen Nordwind (‘Good against the North Wind’) for three years, Daniel Glattauer has finally given Leo and Emmi a second chance: ...
Die Morawische Nacht Handke, Peter
Night has already fallen as seven invited guests arrive on board a houseboat on the Morawa, a tributary of the Danube, to listen to the story of a former author, the story of a journey to the end ...
Ruhm Kehlmann, Daniel
Ruhm (‘Fame’) is the laconic title of the new book by best-selling author Daniel Kehlmann. Its subtitle proclaims it to be 'A Novel in Nine Stories' and indeed the individual stories are ...
Paloma Mayröcker, Friederike
Friederike Mayröcker’s latest book publication, auspiciously entitled Paloma, comprises 99 letters to an addressee who is not known by name. However, the recipient, addressed as 'Dear friend', ...
Luciferin Rainer, Angelika
The title of this first book, which is extraordinary both as far as its content and its language are concerned, derives from the fluorescent substance of glowworms. The short protagonist Lucy ...
Ich reiß mir eine Wimper aus und stech dich damit tot. Winkler, Josef
Anthemic Prose Since Natura morta (2001), Roppongi (2007) and certainly since his new anthemic prose work, no-one in Austrian literature has been able to hold a candle to Büchner Prize winner ...
Von Dschalalabad nach Bad Schallerbach Einzinger, Erwin
The rather tired humour of the echoing syllables in the title is already an example of the madcap toing and froing and toing that characterizes Erwin Einzinger’s writing. Two little arrows ...
Schaumschluchten Balàka , Bettina
Bettina Balàka, who was born in 1966, is a very versatile authoress. She writes novels, short stories, poems, plays, radio plays and essays and has received many literary prizes. In ...
Eigenleben oder wie schreibt man eine Novelle Aigner, Christoph Wilhelm
Marina di Cecina in winter. A seaside resort without visitors, the houses by the beach locked and barricaded, in mothballs until the next season. Everything cold and damp, poorly heated or shut. ...
Wenn Kinder Steine ins Wasser werfen Bayer, Xaver
Endless stream of thought Xaver Bayer rebels against the full stop A man is waiting at Brussels Airport for his flight to leave. Never mind the gate. Naturally he passes the waiting ...
Rauchernovelle Dahimène, Adelheid
As a non-smoker one comes to Rauchernovelle (Smoker’s Story) with mixed feelings. There is a woman sitting a train and complaining that she is forbidden to smoke. Should one feel sympathy here? ...
Kein einziger Tag Stift, Linda
The Austrian biotope always seems to have the right degree of dampness for ominous cases of symbiosis. Anyone who wants to be spared the need to look at the political and media scenes for some ...
